Forteller

Being the author of the breakout novel, Gates of The Primordials, Jarren Fletcher did not care about the constant critiques claiming he had a habit of treating extra characters as mere plot devices, creating and then dumping them once they’d served their purpose.

To Jarren, it didn’t matter. Extras were just that—extras. All that mattered was the main character.

But Jarren never expected to wake up in his own story, reincarnated as one of the meaningless, disposable extra characters, Deremiah Morcant—a coward who took his own life to escape the perilous challenges of the Gate Trials.

Now, Jarren has to face those deadly challenges himself in the body of a weak, insignificant extra. He must find a way to survive in the rules of the dangerous world he had created, whilst also trying to save it. 

But time is running out. The next Wave is coming, and so are the paragons.

The Author Reincarnated As An Extra

When five minutes had passed, Deremiah was already feeling an unbearable pain in his shoulder, both his left and right, which was the one of his wielding arm.

The pain was more intense on the wielding arm, as his body kept threatening to tilt and fall over. Elora said he was doing this so he could get used to the sword's weight, but the corrupted blade had never felt heavier.

"You can't falter," she said to him. "Discipline and persistence moulds one into success. If you start to give up now, what would you ever be able to withstand? To accomplish? Start from now and accept pain as the process to progress. Anything else will lead you down the path of failure and regret."

Deremiah squeezed his face and lifted his head to the sky. 'She has a way with words,' he mused, trying to make light of the extremely difficult situation.

• The One Who Learned to Fight (2)